There's no doubt that's true. Baxter wants to cling to interpretations that just don't work while you are more intent on finding interpretations that do work. I think it's a part of his libertarian mindset that also doesn't work and can't work.
Obviously the 21st. century has proven the old interpretations wrong in so many ways. Good for you for looking deeper.
That works for me but of course nothing is going to work for Baxter, and you shouldn't worry about ever convincing him of anything. Being a libertarian, fiction, contrariness, and dogma are his very soul.